Background: The advanced wastewater and water treatment by Reverse Osmosis (RO) system have almost become a common option in industries. However, achieving consistent RO feed quality the rigor of pre-treatment pose big challenge for specialists. Due to critical limiting parameters (Silica, Turbidity, BOD, Total hardness) inadequate consideration recycling plant design, Plant likely fails due sc...

Introduction Cold plasma is a self-sterilized, painless, and non-contact method in surgeries. These properties allow it to be applied to the living tissues and heat-sensitive parts. The aim of this study was to design a new cold plasma producer device and evaluate the effects of cold argon plasma on decreasing the coagulation time of blood drop in vitro and that of the injured liver blood in vi...

Surfactants are among the most widely disseminated xenobiotics that contribute significantly to the pollution profile of sewage and wastewaters of all kinds. Among the currently employed chemical unit processes in the treatment of wastewaters, coagulation-flocculation has received considerable attention for yielding high pollutant removal efficiency. Jar-test experiments are employed in order t...

1. A method has been described whereby the intensity of the light of luminous bacteria may be measured in a quantitative manner. 2. It is pointed out that the temperature coefficients for light intensity do not follow the van't Hoff rule, but are higher and vary with each 10 degrees temperature interval. 3. From a comparison with other data it is found that the process is not a simple one, but ...

Coagulation is presented as an efficient alternative to reduce the silica content in 14 effluents from recovered-paper mills that are intended to be recycled by a final reverse15 osmosis (RO) step. Coagulation pretreatment by several polyaluminum chlorides 16 (PACls) or FeCl3 was optimized prior to the RO process. PACls with low alumina 17 content and high basicity achieved almost a 100% remova...

Arsenic is a naturally occurring contaminant in waters, which toxic and adversely affects human health. Therefore, treatment of water for arsenic removal very important production safe drinking water. Coagulation using Fe(III) salts the most frequently applied technology removal, but efficient mostly As(V) removal. As(III) usually requires application pre-oxidation step, mainly conducted by che...

abstract  introduction: during extrinsic coagulation pathway, a complex is developed between factor vii, calcium and tissue factor (a cell membrane lipoprotein that is exposed after cell injury). factor vii needs calcium and vitamin k for its biologic activation. coronary artery disease (cad) can be induced by increased level and activity of the coagulation factors vii, viii and ix. in postmeno...

In response to injury, blood coagulation is activated and results in generation of the clotting protease, thrombin. Thrombin cleaves fibrinogen to fibrin which forms an insoluble clot that stops hemorrhage. Factor V (FV) in its activated form, FVa, is a critical cofactor for the protease FXa and accelerator of thrombin generation during fibrin clot formation as part of prothrombinase (1, 2). Ma...

Iron salts are used in the treatment of iron deficiency anemia. Diabetic patients are frequently anemic and treatment includes administration of iron. Anemic patients on hemodialysis are at an increased risk of thromboembolic coronary events associated with the formation of dense fibrin clots resistant to fibrinolysis. Moreover, in chronic kidney disease patients, high labile plasma iron levels...

Improving the functionality and reducing revision rates are important driving forces in the development of orthopaedic implants. FibMat is a fibrinogen based matrix developed towards commercialisation by the company Optovent AB. This matrix can be coated on implants and act as a local drug delivery system for bisphosphonates (BPs). BPs are drugs inhibiting bone resorption, and applied with FibM...